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Cool but something i saw that was weird, this may be the first repo i've ever seen to advertise ... words of code, i've always seen secure repos advertise their
by cchance 3y ago
Cool but something i saw that was weird, this may be the first repo i've ever seen to advertise ... words of code, i've always seen secure repos advertise their "in only X LOC" seeing words of code as a metric was funny
- creshal 3y agoIt's unusual, but IMO makes sense, as it encapsulates complexity better than LOC do, because the latter are more sensitive to formatting preferences etc. Books are also measured in words too (also for category thresholds, e.g. between a novella and a full novel), so there's precedent too.
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- oxryly1 3y agoMade it seem like it was written in Forth.
- fbdab103 3y agoThe Wren language[0] uses semicolons as its size metric: Wren is small. The VM implementation is under 4,000 semicolons. You can skim the whole thing in an afternoon. It’s small, but not dense. It is readable and lovingly-commented. [0] https://wren.io/ https://wren.io/
- justin_oaks 3y agoSemicolons seems an odd metric since complexity is often introduced by if-else branches, while loops, and function declarations. Each of those doesn't involve semicolons.
- genezeta 3y agoI don't know, but it might be somewhat tongue-in-cheek since Wren itself doesn't use semicolons at all.